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Microsoft heiress Jennifer Gates has married Egyptian equestrian Nayel Nassar in a secret ceremony held the night before the announced wedding date, DailyMail.com has exclusively learned. The private Muslim ceremony was held on Friday night in the garden of the family's 142-acre estate in North Salem, New York where a larger civil ceremony with 300 guests is scheduled for Saturday afternoon. Parents Bill and Melinda Gates will jointly walk 25-year-old Jennifer, whose dress was custom made by Vera Wang, down the aisle at Saturday's ceremony. Coldplay will perform at the reception, as will folk rock star Harry Hudson. Saturday's guest...

Washington - In the face of widespread criticism from across the political spectrum, Republican presidential frontrunner stuck to his guns over his controversial call to bar Muslims from entering the US. With his supporters largely backing him, the real estate mogul and reality TV celebrity projected the call as a temporary move in response to terrorism. He even invoked President Franklin D. Roosevelt's authorisation of the detention of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants during World War II as a precedent. "This is a president highly respected by all; he did the same thing," Trump told MSNBC Tuesday. The nation was...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3644086,00.html After day which saw some 60 rockets, mortar shells land in Gaza vicinity communities, rocket causes light damage to kibbutz fence Thursday morning. Foreign Minister Livni meets with Egyptian President Mubarak in Cairo, in bid to prevent escalation

The perfect divine truth and justice of Allah, instituted in the 7th century in Arabia unfortunately hasn’t yet graced the land of America, which Allah has made so resourceful with his bounty. It is still dominated and dictated by the vile Jews, Christians and worst of all, the atheists. Keith Ellison clearly has a firm mission for establishing the divine plan of Allah in the American soil.

Saudi Arabia has been accused of continuing to foster religious hatred in its schools, despite its repeated assurances since the September 11 attacks that it would rewrite textbooks that refer to Jews as "apes" and Christians as "swine". The charges come after Freedom House, a non-partisan American research group which monitors civil rights worldwide, examined textbooks that it smuggled out of Saudi Arabia. The group found that despite promises of change from leading Saudi officials, including Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister, and Turki al-Faisal, the ambassador to America, schoolbooks in the kingdom still promote hatred of those who do not...

Window into the fascist mind Sept. 22, 2004 04:10 PM FIRST WE UNDERSTAND, THEN WE FIGHT M. Zuhdi Jasser Phoenix physician; Chairman, American Islamic Forum for Democracy In the opinion section of Al Jazeerah's website today is a piece which, for those who have the gastric fortitude, provides a vivid window into the working mind of what America is truly fighting in this global war - a "war" not on "terror" which is a tactic, but a war against an ideology. Al Jazeerah's writer from London, Yamin Zakaria, opines freely for the free world to read. He leaves the reader...